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ing evidence of the careful study and public spirit of Mr. Amory are those on city hos- pitals, in which he was especially interested ; on ferries, which led eventually to the pur- chase of the ferries by the municipality; on county relations, law department, ordinances and primary meetings ; weights and measures ; the Hancock House ; town criers ; street widen- ing ; printing ; city charities; amendments to the city charter ; state aid to volunteers ; public instruction; the police force; methods of re- cruiting the army and supplying the state quota. He opposed the Metropolitan police bill, and is credited with defeating its passage. His report on state begging was a notable document. He was one of the first to advocate the erection of the Charity building, now located on Chardon street. His report on municipal questions in answer to various queries of the English government was pub- lished by the local government board (Eng-> land) 1878. He wrote the annual report of the Boston school board for 1867. He was a member of the Charitable Historical and Scientific Society, and a founder of the Social Science Association. Among the lectures that he delivered from time to time were: "Old Homes," "Old Cambridge and New," "Our English Ancestors," "Homes of the Olden Times," "John Winthrop," "The Siege of Louisburg," "The Siege of Newport," "Seals of Massachusetts," "Street Nomenclature of Boston." He wrote biographies and other articles for various publications. He wrote the memoir of General Sullivan, of revolution- ary fame, and a pamphlet in answer to un- truthful asperions on the character of General Sullivan. His letters from Europe in 1871 were published. He wrote a versified legend of William Blackstone, sole inhabitant of Bos- ton for the Old South Fair ; also other metrical productions. His most important book was perhaps, "Transfer of Ireland, or the Acquisi- tion of Ireland by the English," published first in magazine form, then in two volumes, 1878, by Lippincott of Philadelphia. He is one of the one hundred members of the Massachu- setts Historical Society to which he has con- tributed valuable papers. In religion he was an Episcopalian, member of Trinity Church. He never married.
(VIII) Charles W., son of William Amory, was born in Boston, October 16, 1842. He was educated in the public schools, in Pro- fessor Wayne Lovering's School and at Har- vard College where he was graduated in the class of 1863 with the degree of A. B. He
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enlisted in Company G, Second Massachusetts Cavalry, and was taken prisoner July 6, 1864. For three weeks he was confined with other Union prisoners in box-cars at Macon, Georgia, then in the common jail at Charleston, South Carolina. He was released on parole in Octo- ber, was exchanged and returned to his regi- ment in January, 1865, in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. He took part in the great review in Washington at the close of the war. After the war he went abroad, traveling for recreation and health through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Italy, France and Spain. In the autumn of 1866 he came home and entered the firm of Wain- wright & Amory, stock brokers. After seven years in this business, he retired on account of ill health and spent three years in Europe. In 1879, upon his return, he became treasurer of the Amory Cotton Mills, owned by his father. From 1898 to 1905 he was treasurer of the great Amoskeag Mills at Manchester, New Hampshire. Since then he has been presi- dent of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Com- pany. He married, 1867, Elizabeth Gardner, born 1843. Children: 1. William, born Sep- tember, 1869, graduate of Harvard in 1891 ; resides in Boston; married Mary Stockton. 2. Clara, 1872, married T. Jefferson Coolidge Jr., born 1863. 3. George Gardner, 1874, grad- uate of Harvard in 1896; resides at Boston ; associated in business with his father. 4. Dorothy, married Frederick Winthrop.
(VIII) Francis I., son of William Amory, was born in Boston, June 5, 1850. He attend- ed the Epes S. Dixwell School and fitted there for Harvard College, where he was graduated in the class of 1871 with the degree of A. B. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1875 with degree of LL. B. He has not been in active practice but has spent most of his time in management of trust estates. He is an Episcopalian in religion and a Republican in politics. He is a member of Somerset, Country and Essex County clubs. He married, May 12, 1886, Grace J. Minot, born September, 1859, daughter of Charles H. and Maria J. (Grafton) Minot, of Boston. Children, born in Boston: 1. Mary J., June 27, 1887. 2. Charles M., December 6, 1890, prepared for college at Groton school, Groton ; student of Harvard College, class of 1912. 3. Child, died young. 4. Francis I. Jr., May 16, 1859, student in the Noble Greenough School. (VIII) Colonel Thomas Isaac Coffin, son of Jonathan (3) Amory, was born in Boston, November 27, 1828. His earlier years were
spent in boarding schools, one being at New- port, Rhode Island. In 1846 he was appointed to the West Point Military Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1851 as brevet second lieutenant. He served in the seventh cavalry, United States army, until 1860, when he was ordered to Boston on re- cruiting service. He was commissioned sec- ond lieutenant August 21, 1851 ; first lieuten- ant August 16, 1855; captain May 7, 1861 ; major Eighth Infantry, United States army, September 19, 1864. His service with the Seventh Cavalry was mostly in the west and southwest. He was stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and other points. At the breaking out of the rebellion he was for a time the only regular army officer in Boston, and proved extremely useful to Governor Andrew as to advice in the enlistment and equipment of state regiments for the war, and as acting commissary of muster, and it was he who mustered into the service of the United States the first of these regiments. On September 2, 1861, Governor Andrew commissioned him colonel of the Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teers. He proved himself an able and efficient officer, and his service was conspicuously meritorious until his death at Newberne, North Carolina, in October, 1864, from an attack of yellow fever while in the line of his duty. He married, in 1853, Mary M. Nolan, who died a few days before her husband, and from the same disease. Children: I. Thomas Montford, died in 1863 at Newberne, North Carolina. 2. Edward J., born 1856, resides in Wilmington, Delaware. 3. William N. 4 .. Mary, died in 1878, while a student at Pelham Priory. 5. Laura C., married Thomas C. Dugan, of New Orleans, Louisiana ; resides in New York City.
(VIII) Major Charles Bean, son of Jona- than (3) Amory, was born in New York, July 30, 1841. He was educated in the public schools, grammar and high, at Jamaica Plain. He began business life in May, 1857, entering the counting-room of B. C. Clark & Company, Commercial Wharf, Boston, and remained there until the civil war period, when he entered the army, having previously served in 1860-61 as a private in the New England Guards. He was first lieutenant of the Twenty- fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, from September 2, 1861, to July, 1862, and captain from the latter date to May, 1864; then became captain and assistant adjutant- general, United States Volunteers, staff of
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General William F. Bartlett ; and brevet major for gallantry in front of Petersburg, May 13, 1865. He served with his regiment in the following engagements: Burnside expedition to North Carolina, Roanoke Island, capture of Newberne, Tarboro, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsborough, the siege of Morris Island and Fort Sumter, the charge on rifle-pits in front of Battery Wagner, Drewry's Bluff, and then on the staff of General W. F. Bartlett in front of Petersburg, and at the explosion of Peters- burg mine. At the latter he was captured and taken to Danville, Virginia, thence to Rich- land jail, Columbia, South Carolina, and thence to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he escaped with Lieutenant Hoppin. Second Massachu- setts Heavy Artillery. They were out five weeks tramping over the Blue Ridge and Alle- ghany mountains, striking the pickets of Gen- eral Thomas's army at Greenville, East Tennes- see. Then they received leave of absence for thirty days, at the end of which time Rich- mond had fallen and the war was practically over. Consequently Major Amory resigned. After the war he was for two years, 1865-66, confidential clerk to Burnham & Dexter, cotton buyers in New Orleans. The next two years, 1 867-68, he was a member of the firm of Tab- ary & Amory, cotton brokers in New Orleans ; from 1869 to 1878 a member of the firm of Jno. A. Burnham & Company, cotton buyers ; from 1878 to 1885 of the firm of Appleton, Amory & Company, in the same business. Then, leaving New Orleans and coming north, he was in 1886 elected treasurer of the Hamil- ton Company of Lowell, with office in Boston, the position he now holds. Mr. Amory is a member of the Massachusetts Military His- torical Society, of the Loyal Legion, and of the Somerset and Country clubs. His resi- dence is in Milton, where he is warden of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Mattapan. He married (first) June 9, 1867, Emily A. Ferri- day, of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, who was born in 1848, died July 31, 1879, daughter of William and (Smith) Ferriday. He maried (second) April 30, 1881, Lilly Clapp, born in 1856, daughter of Emory and Pamela (Starr) Clapp, of New Orleans, Louisiana. Children by second marriage: I. Charles B., born 1882, educated at Pennsylvania Military College, graduating in 1904; same year com- missioned second lieutenant and assigned to First Infantry, United States army; in 1908 transferred to Ninth Cavalry; now (1909) serving his third year in the Philippines, located on Island of Luzon. 2. Leita Mont-
gomery, born 1883, married Charles E. Per- kins, son of Charles E. and Edith ( Forbes) Perkins, of Boston: resides in Burlington, Iowa. 3. John Austin, born 1885, in New Orleans, Louisiana, graduate of Milton Acad- emy and of Harvard College, class of 1908; now assistant secretary of State Street Trust Company. 4. Roger, born in Boston, 1887, attended private schools in Milton and Milton Academy ; student at Harvard College, class of 1910; enlisted in December, 1907, for three years as private in Troop B, First Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
(VIII) Lieutenant Robert Gordon, son of Jonathan (3) Amory, was born in Roxbury, April 12, 1847. He attended a private school at Jamaica Plain, and a boarding school at Newton Center. He enlisted as a musician in the Second Massachusetts Artillery, April 15, 1863, and was stationed at Newberne, North Carolina ; was transferred to Company D, Second Artillery, and made sergeant ; was commissioned second lieutenant, August, 1864, and remained in service until September 3, 1865, when he was honorably mustered out. His service was mostly in fortifications out- side of Newberne, and at Forts Macon, Fisher and Johnson. After leaving the military ser- vice he returned to Boston, and was associated with his father as clerk. He was afterwards appointed to a clerkship in the clearance de- partment of the Boston custom house, and was afterward clerk to the cashier of the cus- tom house until 1876, when he resigned. He then went to New York, where he remained until 1887, at that time leaving the agency of the Boston Belting Company. He was asso- ciated with Nathan Matthews in the manage- ment of his mother's large estate for a number of years. Since 1899 he has been in the cotton business with Francis C. Stanwood, at 4 Post Office Square, Boston. He is a companion of the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and a comrade of Charles Ward Post, No. 62, Grand Army of the Republic, Newton. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and in politics a Republican. He married Annie Jameson, daughter of Thorn- dike and Lucinda L. (Otis) Jameson, of Bos- ton. They have no children.
(VIII) Arthur, son of James Sullivan Amory, was born in Boston, February 6, 1841. He fitted for college in Mr. Dixwell's School and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1862, a classmate of General William F. Bart- lett. He received the degree of A. M. He began his business career with the firm of
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Slade & Colby, wholesale dry goods commission merchants, New York City, representatives of Upham, Tucker & Company, selling agents for the Lancaster Mills, the Nashua Mills, Jack- son Mills and other large manufacturers of cotton goods, etc. After three years he was admitted to the firm of Upham, Tucker & Company. He was connected with the New York house of this firm until 1877 when he returned to Boston. The firm name became Dana, Tucker & Company, then Amory, Browne & Company, with Mr. Amory at the head of the business, and so continues. He is a director of the Old Boston National Bank, not the largest bank of Boston but without doubt the highest in standing and financial reputation. He is president of the Indian Head Mills of Alabama and of the Nashua Manufacturing Company of Nashua, New Hampshire, and a director of the Atlantic Mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Somerset Club, Harvard Club of New York, one of the five founders of the Eastern Yacht Club and Wednesday Evening Club. He married, June 6, 1866, Elizabeth W. Ingersoll, born in Phil- adelphia, in which city she inherited the family plantation, daughter of Charles and Susan (Brown) Ingersoll, the former of whom was a very distinguished barrister and a very prom- inent citizen of Philadelphia. Children : I. Arthur, born 1767, died 1898; graduate of Harvard, 1892; married Mabel Sard. 2. Inger- soll, born 1869, graduate of Harvard, 1892. 3. Susan, born 1871, married Edwin B. Bart- lett ; child, Betty Bartlett. 4. Ethel, born 1873. 5. Sullivan, born 1878, died 1881.
(VIII) Dr. Robert, son of James Sullivan Amory, was born in Boston, May 3. 1842. He attended the Epes Sargent Dixwell School where he fitted for college, entered Harvard and graduate in the class of 1863 with the degree of A. B. and from the Medical School in 1866 with the degree of M. D. In the spring of 1866 he was an interne at the Massachu- setts General Hospital and subsequently studied in Professor Tardieu's laboratory at Paris and at Dublin Rotunda Lying-in-Hos- pital. In 1867 he began to practice at Long- wood, part of Brookline, Massachusetts, where he has since resided. He was devoted to his profession and became eminently successful as a practitioner. At the same time, under circumstances particularly favorable, he prose- cuted medical research. He published a treatise in 1870 entitled "Action of Nitrous Oxide"
and in 1872 "Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium." In 1872 he wrote an article for the New York Medical Journal entitled "Chloral Hydrates-Experiments disproving Evolution of Chloroform in the Organism." Later, he had a paper in the London Practi- tioncr on the "Pathological Action of Prussic Acid." He wrote the chapter on "Poisons" in the third edition of Wharton & Stille's Medical Jurisprudence published in 1873 by Kay & Brother. In a second edition of this work he and Professor E. S. Wood of the Harvard Medical School expanded the chapter into the second volume of the work. He translated "Lectures on Physiology" by Professor Küss of Strasburg University Medical School, pub- lished in Boston in 1875, and during the same year he contributed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences papers on "Photographs of the Spectrum and Other Subjects." As reporter on Medical and Surgical Journal of Boston on the progress of therapeutics, he wrote various papers as to the action of drugs. In 1869 he was appointed annual lecturer on the physiological action of drugs for that year in Harvard Medical School and later was appointed professor of physiology in the Bow- doin College Medical School. He resigned in 1874. He was councillor and vice-president of the Norfolk County District Medical Society and afterward president; councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society and trial com- missioner. In May, 1880, he was delegate from the Massachusetts Medical Society to the sixth decennial convention of state medical societies, colleges of physicians and surgeons and of pharmacy, held in Washington, to revise and publish an official guide for physicians and apotliecaries of the United States ; was perma- nent president of the convention and member of the general committee on revision and pub- lication. The result of the work-The United States Pharmacopeia-was published by Will- iam Wood & Company, New York, in 1882. He was an early member of the Boston Society of Medical Observation, treasurer and presi- dent of the Boston Society of Medical Re- search, and corresponding member of the New York Therapeutical Society. In 1879 with Dr. Sabine he examined the causes of an epidemic of typhoid fever in Brookline, and their re- port, published in a supplemental volume of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, was highly commended for its thoroughness and hygienic value. In 1876 he was appointed medical director of the Second Brigade, Mass- achusetts Volunteer Militia, with the rank of
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lieutenant-colonel. When the antiquated and obectionable office of coroner was abolished in Massachusetts, Dr. Amory was appointed by the governor medical examiner of the eighth district of Norfolk county and with Dr. Alfred Hosmer, another medical examiner, he organ- ized the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, of which he was recording secretary two years and afterward president. The membership of this society consists of all the medical exam -- iners of the state, the attorney general and dis- trict attorneys, and various legal and medical men interested in the subject. In 1881 he built a summer home at Mount Desert, Maine, and practised there during the summer months, resigning his office as medical examiner, his commission in the militia and as president of the Medico-Legal Society. His closing address to that society was printed in the Medical and Surgical Journal in December, 1881. He has been active in public affairs in Brookline, serv- ing nine years as member and four as secre- tary of the school committee, and six years as trustee of the public library. Since 1871 he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1864 of the National Historical Society of Boston. He has been president and manager of the Brook- line Gaslight Company and is a member of the St. Botolph, Algonquin, Somerset and Uni- versity clubs of Boston and the University Club of New York.
He married (first) in May, 1864, Marianne Appleton Lawrence, born 1843, died in 1882. He married (second) September, 1884, Kath- erine Leighton Crehore, born 1864. Child of first wife: I. Alice, married, 1892, Augustus Thorndike. Children of second wife: 2. Rob- ert Jr., born 1885. 3. Mary Copley, 1888. 4. Katherine L., 1891. 5. Margery Sullivan,
1897.
The Rev. John Robinson, ROBINSON the father of the Puritans in England in 1620, pastor of the Pilgrims in Holland before they sailed in the "Mayflower" and landed at Plymouth, New England, is the progenitor of a branch of the Robinsons of New England who proudly claim a heritage of brain and power seldom vouchsafed to a family able to maintain through successive generations so rich an heritage. To Samuel Robinson, the founder of Bennington, Vermont, and his descendants, this honor be- longs. In a single century his descendants claim to have had two representatives in the chair of governor; two in the United States
senate ; six on the bench of a court of justice, including the highest degree; acknowledged leaders of Democratic party in three genera- tions; United States marshals, generals, col- onels, state attorneys, town clerks and lesser. officials without number. Dartmouth College in 1790 had an honorary class and conferred degrees on Josiah Bartlett, Samuel Bass, Alex- ander Hamilton, Aaron Hutchinson, Peter Olcott, Jonathan and Moses Robinson, of Ver- mont. They were allied with the ancestry of Governor Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut, and other notable New England families.
(I) William Robinson, immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Robinson family, was born about 1640. The first record obtainable shows that he was living in Watertown, Mass- achusetts, as early as 1670. He then had a farm of two hundred acres on the narrow neck of land claimed by both Concord and Watertown. He was a signer of the original petition for the separation of Newtowne and Cambridge in 1678. He married in Cambridge as early as 1667, Elizabeth Cutter, born in Cambridge, July 15, 1645, daughter of Rich- ard and Elizabeth ( Williams) Cutter. Eliza- beth Williams is said to have come with her father, Robert Williams, in the ship "John and Dorothy" to Massachusetts, April 8, 1637. Robert Williams was born in 1608, in Nor- wick, Norfolk county, England, and was a cordwainer. His wife Elizabeth was born in 1626, in England, and was admitted to the church at Roxbury in 1644. She died in Cam- bridge, March 5, 1662. Children: I. Eliza- beth, born at Cambridge, 1669, married, De- cember 20, 1693, Daniel McGregor, of Wash- ington. 2. Hannah (Ann), Concord, July 13, 1671, died at Cambridge, October 5, 1672. 3. William, July 10, 1673, married Elizabeth Up- ham ; died at Newton, 1754. 4. Mercy, August 7, 1676. 5. David, May 23, 1678, died at the age of ninety-five, and was "lame and help- less" in old age. 6. Samuel (twin), April 20, 1680, resided at Grafton and Hardwick, Mass- achusetts, and was a prominent man. 7. Jona- than (twin), April 20, 1680, mentioned below.
(II) Samuel, twin of Jonathan, son of William and Elizabeth (Cutter) Robinson, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony, April 20, 1680. Jonathan removed to Cambridge farms in 1706 and it is probable that about 1735, on the organization of the town of Grafton, William, the father, with his son Samuel and other members of the family removed to the new town, the place they set- tled being set off as Hardwick in 1739. He
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married Sarah Manning. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars and a founder of Bennington, Vermont, with his sons, and he died there in 1767.
(III) Samuel (2), the eldest son of Samuel (I) and Sarah (Manning) Robinson, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massa- chusetts, April 1, 1707, and was brought up in that place and removed to Hardwick in 1735 and thence to the disputed territory known as New Hampshire Grants (Vermont ) in 1761, locating at Bennington. While in Massachu- setts he had been a captain in the Massachu- setts troop through the several campaigns in the vicinity of Lakes George and Champlain, in the French and Indian wars, and went from Hardwick to the New Hampshire Grants in 1761 and was made the first justice of the peace in Bennington, being commissioned by Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire. This appointment brought him prominently before the people in the struggles between New Hampshire and New York authorities, and as an appointee of Wentworth he took sides in the case of two claimants in Pownal and was supported by Samuel Ashby, a New Hampshire deputy sheriff, and both men were arrested by the authorities of the state of New York and carried to Albany where they were placed in jail, and Robinson and Ashley were indicted for resisting the New York officers, but never brought to trial as after an acrimon- ious correspondence between the governors of New York and New Hampshire the affair . ended in a compromise. On his return to the grants, Captain Robinson was deputed by the settlers in 1765 to go to Albany and try to save the lands on which they had settled, built homes; and were occupying from speculators, who were obtaining grants of the very same land from the land of Lieutenant-Governor Colden, but his efforts were unavailing. He was sent in 1766 as an agent for the settlers to England to present their claims to the British ministry, and his purpose was receiv- ing favorable consideration and was likely to succeed when he was stopped from further action by the dread disease, small-pox, from which he died in London, England, October 27, 1767. His eldest son, Colonel Samuel Robinson, was elected one of the town com- mittee of Bennington to succeed his father. Captain Robinson married, while a resident of Hardwick, Massachusetts, Mercy Leonard, daughter of Moses Leonard, and their chil- dren were all born in that town. These chil- dren were: I. Samuel (q. v.). 2. Moses,
born March 20, 1741, attended Dartmouth Col- lege, removed to Bennington, Vermont, in 1761; was the first clerk of Bennington in 1762 and served for nineteen years. As col- onel of the militia, he was in command of his regiment on Mount Independence, when Ticon- deroga was evacuated by St. Clair, July 5, 1777, and after that disastrous event he was a member of the committee of safety, in con- tinuous session for several months. He was a member of the governor's council, 1777-85, and during the infant troubles of the new state he had the confidence of the leaders and the fathers of the movement, although his official position prevented his taking an active part. He was the first chief justice of the new state and held the office until 1789, when he was elected governor of Vermont, but before it was admitted as a state and by the legisla- ture after Crittenden had received 1263 votes from the freemen, Robinson 746, and Samuel Safford 378. He was an agent from the state of the continental congress in 1782 and one of the commissioners to finally adjust the con- troversy with New York. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Yale and Dartmouth in 1790. In 1791 he was chosen a United States senator in congress when he approved the ratification of the Jay treaty and not being in accord with the majority of his party in the state he resigned his seat in the United States senate in October, 1796, served for one term in the state legislature as a repre- sentative from Bennington, where he died May 26, 1813. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Stephen Fay, July 25, 1762, who died in 1801, and by her had six sons of whom Moses, the eldest was a representative in the state council and a member of the general assembly of Vermont, and Aaron, the second child, was town clerk for seven years, justice of the peace for twenty-three years, representative in state legislature, 1816-17, judge of probate, 1835-36; and Samuel, the third child, was clerk of the supreme court for the county, 1794- 1815, and Nathan, another son, was a repre- sentative in the state legislature, a lawyer, and died at the age of forty, a member of the assembly. Moses married ( second) Susannah, widow of Major Artemus Howe, and daughter of General Jonathan Warner, of Hardwick, Massachusetts. 3. Nathan, born about 1752, had son, John Saniford Robinson, who was born in Bennington, November 10, 1804. He was graduated at Williams College, A. B., 1824, was a state legislator in both houses and thrice the Democratic candidate for governor
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